Grief
תּוּגָהStrong’s H8424tugah (tu-gah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tugah is the Hebrew word usually translated “from grief”, “grief of” and “grief”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.”
Meaning
- Grief, heaviness, sorrow
How it's translated
- from grief 1
- grief of 1
- grief 1
- to grief 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 3
- Psalms 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 10:1The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
- Proverbs 14:13Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
- Proverbs 17:21He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
Hebrew dictionary
תּוּגָה tugah · grief
grief, heaviness, sorrow
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “grief” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GRIEF,noun
[Latin gravis.]
- The pain of mind produced by loss, misfortune, injury or evils of any kind; sorrow; regret.
- The pain of mind occasioned by our own misconduct; sorrow or regret that we have done wrong; pain accompanying repentance.
- Cause of sorrow; that which afflicts.“Who were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah” Genesis 26:35“A foolish son is a grief to his father” Proverbs 17:25
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.